Broiling apparatus.



'PATENTED DEC. 25, 1906.

M. @(VARTANIAN. BRO'ILING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, 19 06.

/NVEN TOR,

UNITED sTArEs .T- OFFICE",

MANOOG e. VARTANIAN, or PROVIDENCE, RHODE'ISLAND. I I IBRQILIINGY'APPARATUS. I

To all-whom) it may concern.

Be it known that I, MANOOGGQVARTA- NIAN, a'citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Providence, in the county of and driven by a suitable ment, whereby steak, fish,

Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improve-- ments in Broiling' Apparatus, of which the following is a specification. y

My inventionrelates to improvements in that class of kitchen appliances that are used for broiling meats, fish, chickens, and similar articles of food; and the ob'ect of my invention is to provide a simple, 'e ective,

placed or removed independent of the other in an expeditious manner.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings,

- Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved apparatus as in use. Fig. 2'is a side sectional view of the apparatus, taken in line to w of-Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top plan sectional view taken in line w :r of Fig. 1. Fig.

4 is an enlarged detail view taken in line 'y y of Fig. 2 and showing a portion of the gearing arrangement for rotating the meat-.

holders. Fig; 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken in line 2 z of Fig. 1 and showing the means for securing a meat-holder in position upon the casing of the apparatus.

Fig. 6 represents a meat holder removed from the apparatus.

Like reference characters indicate like parts.

A represents the casing of the apparatus comprising three vertically-arranged walls I), b, and 5 which terminate at one end with a base-plate b and at the other end with a top plate I).

A series of fire-grates c c are arranged one over the other and equidistantly apart within the casing, and said. grates rest upon flanges d d, integral with the side walls I) 6 thereof. These grates c c are adaptedto receive coke fuel upon them, and whatever ashes pass through'from said grates fall upon the base-plate If? of the casing.

On the side wall I) of the casing is mounted the gearing arrangement for rotating the meat-holders and comprising a series of spur-gears e e e e e, which are loosely mounted Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed May 5, 1906. Serial No- 315,380-

shafts h k, that project looselythrough hubs 11', '1', integral with the side wall I), in the manner shown in Fig. 4. On each stud-shaft h Patented Dec. 25, 71906. I

ff, secured in said wall a Said is secured a collar 9', which abuts the inner surface of the wall b,and said collar is adapted to prevent lateral movement of said shaft.

Each and all of the gears cand g are of equaldiameter, having their axial centers in vertical alinement to each other and situated relatively beyond-thefront of the grates c c, as shown in dottedposition in Fig. 2. v

. 0 Care the meat-holders, each'of which is in the form of a rod k, Fig. 6, having a handle 'lc secured at one endthereof and its opposite end portion ta ering to a point, as MW, and each port1on k made square in crosssection, as shown in Figs. 2 and .5.

Each stud-shaft h of the gears g is provided with a longitudinally-arranged square-shaped opening, asat h in Fig. 4, to freely receive the pointed portion k of each meat-holder C.

The side wall I) of the casing is provided with a series of right-angled slots Z l, which ,1

extend inwardly and downwardly from the edge of said wall, as seen-in Fig. 5, so as to form a journal-bearing to receive a reduced cylindrical portion k formed on therod-k of 'each meat-holder, in the manner shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The shoulder 10*, formed by the reduced portionon the rod is, abuts the inner surface of'the side wall b and thereby prevents displacement of each meat-holder when in horizontal position upon the apparatus.

A cover m, (indicated .by broken line in Fig. 2) is used to close the front of the casing after starting the coke fire and until the smoke from the coke has passed from the flue-pipe n, securedin the top of the casing, after which this cover is removed and the apparatus is then ready for use.

By means of the slot arrangement in the wall. I) of the casing the holders 0 C' are readily placed in position to receive the broiling of the different articles of food and are easily removed when desired.

I show the gearing arrangement as driven by a crank or hand-lever 0, which is made fast upon the hub of the lower gear e; but in a kitchen of a large saloon or hotel I refer to use a motor, clockwork, or any otier convenientform of moving power to drive said gearing arrangement.

ters Patent is- In a brolhng ap parattis, the bonfliination of a casing havmg a series of fire' grates located one above the other thereln; a earlng arrangement comprlslng a serles 0 gears of l'ast me'ntloned series of gears and also a reduced portion to enter the slots of said casloosely'mounted ons'tnds secured in's'aidzcas-f in substantially as set forth. ing, and a second series of gears seouled npon" 4 n testimony whereof I affix studhafts which rotate in said casing, and Qjnimesence of two Witnesses. said stud sha fts proyided eaeh with a long'i I MANOOG G. VARTANIAN,

my signature tudi nal ly arijange'd 'sqnare shaped aperture; Witnesses: I v means to rotate sai earing arranfgement; GnoliA. 'Hs'nlimo'roh; a series of right-angled slots in one Wall of the WM. M. EADs 

